Andrey Lugovoy

Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy (19 September 1966-) was a Liberal Democratic Party of Russia member of the State Duma (from December 2007) and former KGB officer who was involved in the assassination of FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko.

Biography
Andrey Lugovoy was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union in 1966, and he attended the elite Soviet military command academy alongside his childhood friend Dmitry Kovtun. In 1987, he joined the KGB's 9th directorate, which provided security for top officials. After the Dissolution of the Soiet Union, he went on to work in the private security business, and one of his clients was Boris Berezovsky. On 1 November 2006, Lugovoy and Kovtun met with FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko and poisoned him with polonium. Lugovoy was never arrested, and the interest in Lugovoy led to Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky placing Lugovoy second on the LDPR's electoral list; he acquired parliamentary immunity after entering the State Duma in December 2007.